Saturday, March 16, 2013

Microsoft Windows Task Manager / Resource Monitor

1. Task Manager

What do the Task Manager memory columns mean
Memory (Working Set, Peak Working Set, Working Set Delta, Private Working Set, Shared Working Set, Commit Size, Pages Pool, Non-pages Pool, Page Faults, Page Fault Delta)

Task Manager Details
Display Column Working set, Peak Working Set, Working set delta, Commit size, PF delta 
Sort by Commit size

Task Manager Memory
In Use
Available (Standby + Free)
Committed/(Virtual Memory(Physical + Paging Files))
Cached (Modified + Standby)

2. Resource Monitor

*Investigate memory usage with Windows 7 Resource Monitor
Use Resource Monitor for memory monitoring

Process Memory (Hard Faults/sec, Commit, Working Set, Shareable, Private)
Working Set (Shareable + Private)

Physical Memory (Hardware Reserved + In Use + Modified + Standby + Free)
-In Use (Total - Modified - Standby - Free)
-Modified (Still on working set but not been read for a while)
-Standby (Not in working set, can be paged to disk)
-Free

Available (Standby + Free)
Cached (Modified + Standby)
Total (In Use + Modified + Standby + Free)
Installed (Total + Hardware Reserved)

3. Process Explorer

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